“What?" she asked.
"You're beautiful."
She rolled her eyes. "Flattery will get you laid."
"I sure hope so.”
― J. Lynn, quote from Unchained
“It was like a date - a weird, twisted date that would probably end with them killing something”
― J. Lynn, quote from Unchained
“Holy f*ck, everything they'd said was true.”
― J. Lynn, quote from Unchained
“I see you as Lily. I see you for who you are, even though you don't.” -Julian”
― J. Lynn, quote from Unchained
“I’m going to start from the beginning. All I ask is that you don’t interrupt and you silently pray Luke returns with a milkshake quickly, because they make me happy. And you want to keep me happy.” -Lily”
― J. Lynn, quote from Unchained
“Maybe the first time you saw her you were ten. She was standing in the sun scratching her legs. Or tracing letters in the dirt with a stick. Her hair was being pulled. Or she was pulling someone's hair. And a part of you was drawn to her, and a part of you resisted--wanting to ride off on your bicycle, kick a stone, remain uncomplicated. In the same breath you felt the strength of a man, and a self-pity that made you feel small and hurt. Part of you thought: Please don't look at me. If you don't, I can still turn away. And part of you thought: Look at me.”
― Nicole Krauss, quote from The History of Love
“Lose the pessimism, Ms. Lane. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy.”
― Karen Marie Moning, quote from Darkfever
“You asked me questions nobody ever asked me before. You knew that I was a murderer two times over, but you treated me like a man...”
― Richard Wright, quote from Native Son
“Anger has its place, but it will not serve you here, the way of the warrior is the way of knowing. Of that knowledge requires you to use anger, then you use anger, but you cannot wrest forth knowledge by losing your temper.”
― Christopher Paolini, quote from Inheritance
“Honesty, sincerity, and openness, I esteem essential marks of a good mind,”
― David McCullough, quote from John Adams
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